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The Sindhi Jats (Sindhi: سنڌي جت/جاٽ) are the Sindhi community, who are the indigenous population of Sindh.[1][page needed][2][3]
| Languages | |
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| Sindhi (different dialects). | |
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| Islam | |
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| Jats |
All the Jats of Sindh are muslims except one tribe of『Jātia』which is a hindu tribe of Thar desert. The Jats of Sindh are mainly divided into three sections:
The Jats are one of the ancient Sindhi tribes, many Arab, Persian, and Greek historians have written about Jats, and ancient Hindu texts have also mentioned them. The Arab historians like Al-Biladuri and Ibn Hawqal mentions two Sindhi tribes "Zutts (Jats) and 'Meds".[9]
The Sindhi Jats were pastoralists in lower Sindh, the original homeland of the Sindhi Jats was the lower Indus valley of Sindh. They were nomadic pastoralists who had migrated from the lower Indus river valleyofSindh to the northern parts of Sindh (including present-day Multan) and later to Punjab and other north Indian regions.[10][page needed][11][12][page needed] Some of these Jats migrated as far as Iraq,[13][page needed] and were referred as Zutts (Arabic: الزُّطِّ, romanized: Az-Zutt) by arabs in early Arab writings. During the Arab conquest of Sind in 711 AD, Jats underwent resettlement orchestrated by al-Ḥajāj to a comparable riverine setting in Lower Iraq, referred to as the Baṭāʾiḥ. Subsequently, both al-Walīd I and Yazīd I oversaw the relocation of additional Jat groups to northwestern Syria, accompanied by water buffaloes suitable for the region's warm coastal plains. Nevertheless, a notable portion of the Jat populace chose to remain in Iraq.[14]
Jats were the first people of the Indian subcontinent who embraced Islam during the Prophet Muhammad era,[15] they fought on the side of Ali in the Battle of the Camel in 656 under their chief, Ali B. Danur.[16][page needed] The Jats of Arabia helped Muhammad bin Qasim in the conquest of Sind in the eighth century.[17][page needed]
JATS: One of the important tribes of ancient Sindh, generally a farming community.
Jatt (Also Jat or Jath) is an ingenious community in lower Sindh, Makran and Katch (or Kachh) area of India.
In the famous love story of Sassi Punnuh from Sindhi folklore, Punnuh was a Jatt from Makran who falls in love with Sassi and came to Sindh to marry her. Famous Sindhi poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai has also sung about Jatts and their camels in his poetry.
Al-Biladuri mentions names of two Sindhi tribes 'Jats' and 'Meds'.
...and although some of these migrated as far as Iraq,
these Jatts, known as Zutt in Arabic, were amongst the earliest in Persia to accept Islam and thus join with the Muslim armies in their further conquests. They were also later replenished with more of their men, when the Indus Valley fell into the hands of the Ummayad Caliphate in 711 CE.
